Live and creativity of Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne father participated in the French kings' campaigns for the conquest of Italy. Later, he became rich in trade. This highly cultured and principled man takes care of the upbringing of his son Michelle, who was born in 1533 in his vast estate near Bordeaux. Even in the early years of his youth, the son mastered the Latin language, and later proved his early intellect at Gien's College. Michel de Monten receives a solid legal education. He was initially an advisor to the courts of Et and Perrigo, And then became an advisor to the Bordeaux Parliament. There begins his long-term friendship with Etienne de la Boeci (1559), a highly qualified French humanist, who is a member of the same parliament.

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In 1570, Michelle's father died, for whom he translated "The Natural History" by Raymond Sebon. Soon he withdrew from the Bordeaux Parliament and settled in the family estate of the Monten family, where he arranged to arrange his impressions and reflections from his reading of the ancient, Roman and Greek philosophers, poets and moralists. His earliest appearance occurred in 1580. After publishing this first series, he took a long journey through Germany and Italy, eventually collecting his impressions and reflections in his "Road Journal". While he was being treated in Luke's term, he was elected mayor of Bordeaux. Monten does not feel sufficiently prepared for the high post, but King Henry III urges him to take over the important state service. He fulfills his duties, but warns the magistrates of his hometown that he is not for this job to lose the peace of his life and damage his health as his father did,In any case, with his peaceful and tolerant spirit, Monten manages to keep Bordeaux away from the never-ending inter-struggles.

Monten's essays "The Montessori Essay Collection" appeared in the autumn of 1580 in Bordeaux. The author himself covers all expenses incurred by him. In "A Message to the Reader," he announces that he undertakes an unusual undertaking to reveal his true nature to all. Monten explains that his collection includes his attempts to understand himself, the wandering of his thoughts around the nucleus of human nature, which he unambiguously defines as "fantasies", "hasty tied bundles of reflections", "a mess of reflection" - indications that indicate that the essays are the product of a freely wandering thought. Indeed, later in his book (III, 8), the author likened his "art to justification through the essay" to the art of the leading lively and casual conversation, the purpose of which was the progressive clarification of a problem. The collection is subdivided into chapters of different volumes, apparently not following any order, but offering an order that follows the whims and free associations of the author. This seeming disorder is subordinate only to the author's utmost openness to readers. Monten intentionally does not follow any pre-established plan because he is convinced that most of his thoughts about people are constantly under development, and he leaves a gracious opportunity to supplement them in every subsequent edition of the collection. Sam admits that he writes his essays with "extensions". When he is already working on the third book of his collection, he continues to make corrections and add-ins to the pages of the first two books that were first published in 1580. They were added in the edition of The Essays, which appeared in 1588. The author then writes field supplements of the same edition. After the death of the author, the sculpture, which was scarcely readable, was entrusted to Miss de Gourne and was used as the basis for the subsequent reissuance of the Essays in 1595.

This collection is a unique creation in French literature, which is conceived as a kind of "written tombstones" built from reflections about the man dedicated to the recently descended dear dear friend Etienne de La Boise. It turns into a mirror of a life, of a known person, constantly changing and difficult to define as life itself and human condition. Monten violated his original project "to describe himself only" and included in his collection not only specific experiences, circumstances and personalities derived from his own life experiences but also his views, the wide field of his personal culture and his profound reflections on human morality. Monten emerges as a humanist thinker who, although living in a period of fierce religious conflicts, develops a sense of the relativity of opinions and things, fills with skepticism, which applies to himself and his own opinions, displays charming, atypical for his time, tolerance towards others and their views.